The National Palace Museum (www.npm.gov.tw) houses an amazing loot of Chinese art (I went there twice during my stay) but we found it unpleasantly crowded. The grounds of the museum house a famous Chinese garden, which I personally found not as beautiful as Sydney’s Chinese garden –admittedly I visited in winter. The museum is not served by the Taipei Metro (MRT). We went there by Taxi and had a hell of a time: we were stuck in traffic for an hour and our son became inconsolably restless, which made the whole experience very stressful. If your baby is unsettled by being in a car, you can get there travelling North on the metro (Danshui Line to the Shilin Station, where there is a taxi rank) and then getting to the Palace Museum by Taxi (a ten minutes ride only). Using that system I had a much more enjoyable second trip. The way back to the hotel was a painless (not in rush hour) 25 minutes ride in a taxi, which the help desk of the museum was happy to call for me.
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